Biography
Dennis Gassner (born October 22, 1948) is an American-Canadian production designer. He is notable for his work on Bugsy, Big Fish, Into the Woods, and Blade Runner 2049, his collaborations with the Coen brothers and Sam Mendes, as well the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, the latter two directed by Mendes. He has been nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and has won once. Gassner was nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award for Excell...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Electric State
2025
Production Design
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

The Gray Man
2022
Production Design
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head...

Allied Forces: Making 1917
2020
as Self
Learn how the one shot, 360-degree format was executed and the pivotal role Academy Award® winner Roger Deakins served in bringing Sam Mendes’ vision ...

1917
2019
Production Design
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hu...

Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld
2018
as Himself
The long and hard road that the makers of Waterworld had to face when making the, then, highest budgeted film.

Blade Runner 2049
2017
Production Design
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge wh...

Spectre
2015
Production Design
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...

Into the Woods
2014
Production Design
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

Skyfall
2012
Production Design
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

Bond on Location
2012
as Self - Production Designer
Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors.

Quantum of Solace
2008
Production Design
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond...

The Golden Compass
2007
Production Design
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006
as Self
Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"

Ask the Dust
2006
Production Design
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generati...

Jarhead
2005
Production Design
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit a...

How's It Going to End - The Making of 'The Truman Show'
2005
as Self
The making of 'The Truman Show'.

The Ladykillers
2004
Production Design
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord...

Big Fish
2003
Production Design
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge myste...

Road to Perdition
2002
Production Design
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, ...

The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Production Design
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but hi...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Production Design
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

The Truman Show
1998
Production Design
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, ...

Waterworld
1995
Production Design
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
Production Design
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Hero
1992
Production Design
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then t...

Bugsy
1991
Production Design
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitat...

Barton Fink
1991
Production Design
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Miller's Crossing
1990
Production Design
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

The Grifters
1990
Production Design
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own a...

Field of Dreams
1989
Production Design
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's direct...

Earth Girls Are Easy
1988
Production Design
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into h...

Like Father Like Son
1987
Production Design
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for...

In the Mood
1987
Production Design
When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled....

Wisdom
1986
Production Design
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American...

Under the Cherry Moon
1986
Title Designer
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inhe...

The Hitcher
1986
Production Design
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...

Rumble Fish
1983
Graphic Designer
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare w...

Hammett
1982
Graphic Designer
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

One from the Heart
1981
Graphic Designer
The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.